Stocking doll



Jan. 8,- 1929. 1,698,653

C. C. POOLE STOCKING DOLL Filed May 1. 1928' 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 gnaw nice Jan. 8, 1929.

C. C. POOLE STOCKING DOLL F iled May 1, 1928 2 Sheet-Sheet 2 Zlwmmtoz CaMerZ/ze fboie The general object of Patented Jan. 8, 1929 units-o stares CARRIE CATHERINE POOLE,

or wnsrrnains, MISSOURI.

sarookine norm.

Application filed May, 1,

This invention relates to the formation of stocking dolls, that is, dolls which are formed by properly sewing and staring a stocking. I 4

the present invention is to provide a. very simple method of making a doll from .a stocking, which doll when somade is ableto sit'down or stand upby .reason of the peculiar construction of the doll and without the necessity of bending the doll at all. r

. A further object is to provide a doll of this character which may be readily made to simulate a pickaninny. and which may be provided with kinky hair and may be made otherwise attractive and interesting to a child.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a side view of a childs stocking showing the manner inwhich it is cut off to form the doll:

Figure 2 is a side View of the foot portion of the stocking as formed to provide the head of the doll;

Figure 3 is a like View to Figure 2 but showing the manner in which the body is stuffed;

Figure 4 is a front elevation showing the manner in which the legs are formed;

Figure 5 is a side elevation of the structure shown in Figure 4 after the legs are formed;

Figurefi is a view of the upper portion of the stocking showing the manner in which the armpatterns are laid out thereon;

' Figure 7 is a front elevation of thedoll before being dressed and before the hair and features are applied thereto Figure 8 is a side elevation of the doll standing;

Figure 9 is a detail View of the cardboard used to form the feet and showing the manner in which the legs are stitchedover the feet;

Figure 10 is a perspective View of the doll completed in a seated posture;

The first step in forming the doll isto take a childs stocking, designated generally A in Figure 1, and cut it off on the line a about half the distance between the foot and the top of the stocking. The lower portion of 1' the stocking, that is, the foot and the ankle,

is to be used in forming the body of the doll. The foot and ankle portion of the stocking, designated 10 in Figure 2, is taken and the toe of the stocking stuffed with stuffing 11 so as to form a head 12. In order to simulate a neck, a thread 18 of cotton is tied tightly and i928. seriaifno. 274,271. r

constricted around the neck. Theremainder of the foot ofthestocking is then stuifedwithf stuffing 14, as shown in Figure 3, so as toform of *the stocking, thatis, the ankle portionv thereof is longitudinally slitted at. front and rear, as at 15, thus forming two leg portions 16 which are, of course, to be stitched up,

these legs being of any desired length,'de-

pending upon the length of the. stocking.

The leg portionsafter or as-they are being sewed together are stufi'ed tightly and then a cardboard foot 17 .is'disposed at the lower end of each leg portion and the lower end of each leg portion brought around the bottom of the cardboard foot and sewed up upon the line 18; g

This completes the body and legs of-the doll, and the arms 19 are then cut from the upper part of the stocking, that is, the part which is initially cut off, and these arms are sewed up and stufi'edand then attached to the body by sewing along theflines'20. Hair maybe simulated in any suitable manner, but

preferably kinky hair will be simulated by using black wool yarn sewed into the head so as to provide a plurality of loops, in other words sewed with a running stitch andxthe loops being about long. This simulation of hair is designated 21. The eyes, nose and mouth may then be indicated by the use of embroidery threads, paint or in any other suitable manner. The doll is, of course, to

be dressed suitably and may be dressed in bloomers and a blouse. Socks will be placed upon the feet and preferably leather shoes will be placed over the socks.

A doll constructed in accordance with this invention, by reasonof the fact that the legs aredisposed at an angle to the body due to the body being formed of the foot portion of a stocking, while the legs are formed of the ankle portion of the stocking, may sit up on'the edge of a table or chair quite naturally or may be readily made to stand by reason of the flat feet given to itby the disks or plates 17 of cardboard or other material which forms the bottom of the foot. It will be seen that a doll of this character may be very simply made and because of the fact that it can either stand or sit it is particularly interesting to children.

I am aware of the fact that dolls have be fore been made of stockings which have been stuffed, but in these stocking dolls the foot is not used so that the toe of the stocking forms the head and the heel of the stocking forms the body,'while the legs being formed of the ankle portion of the stocking are, of course, disposed in angular relation to the foot of the stocking and thus in angular relation to'thebody of the doll, nor to my knowledgeare the feet constructed in the same mannerso that the doll may stand, nor is the hair formed in the samew'ay,

While I have before referred to this doll 'as being made of a black stocking, obviously itmight be made of white or flesh colored stockings or stoekings'of any desired color.

lc laimz Y I '1. A method of making a stocking 'doll which consists in cutting the leg of the stock- .lng inv half transversely, stufiing the toe of v a stocking to form the headand tying a cord tightly around the stocking below the head a head and trunk formed from the foot of a stocking, the foot of the stocking being constricted immediately beneath the head 'to form a neck, the legs of the doll'being formed from the ankle portion of the stocking and extending at an angle to the body, the legs having fiat feet upon which the doll may stand, the doll beingprovided with stufiedf arms. g

' In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix mysignature.

CARRIE CATHERINE POOLE. 

